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As Seen On Television : This past Monday the Today Show featured Heidi Montag, author of How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture. The View had Joseph Califano, author of How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents. Jon Stewart hosted Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan on the Daily Show. The Colbert Report had an interview with Paul Goldberger, author of Why Architecture Matters. The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson featured They Might Be Giants, authors of Kids Go!, and of course Oprah had the much anticipated interiew with Sarah Palin about her new book, Going Rogue: An American Life.  On Tuesday, the Today Show featured Tony Hendra, contributor to George Carlin's Last Words: A Memoir. He also appeared on Imus in the Morning the following day. Also on the Today Show, Author James Patterson talked to Al Roker about his new book, I, Alex Cross. On the 19th Good Morning America had an interview with Peter Walsh, author of It's All Too Much, So Get It Together, and today on CBS this Morning bestselling author Mitch Albom spoke to Harry Smith about his new spiritual journey that led him to write his book, Have a Little Faith.  As Heard On National Public Radio : On Monday, the Diane Rehm Show had Alan Sipress, author of The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic. Fresh Air had an interview with Josh Kosman, author of The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis. Byron Pitts, author of Step Out on Nothing was on Talk of the Nation. Also on NPR, The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt was featured. On Tuesday, All Things Considered ran a piece featuring Abraham Verghese and his book My Own Country: A Doctor's Story, and did a story on Sarah Palin's Going Rogue: An American Life. On Wednesday Talk of the Nation featured another book about the former Alaska Govenor, The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star by Matthew Continetti. Talk of the Nation on Thursday had Ken Auletta on the show. Mr. Auletta is the author of Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. The Diane Rehm Show featured Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, authors of Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies. Fresh Air had an interview with Judith Fox about her new book, I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer's which is a chronicle of her husband's journey with the disease. And Morning Edition did a feature announcing the National Book Award Winners:  Colum McCann won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin, T.J. Stiles was awarded the nonfiction prize for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Keith Waldrop won the poetry award for his collection Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy; and Phillip Hoose won the award for young person's literature for his biography Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. Also on NPR this week, Morning Edition did a feature on The Onion which has a new book titled Our Front Pages. Author Michael Belfiore was interviewed on All Things Considered about his book, The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs, and All Things Considered also interviewd British author Martin Jacques about his new book When China Rules the World. |